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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you paying in fees for your kid to play lacrosse?

Club?
Private school?
Public?

What is the tipping point of when you will no longer pay for your kid to play a sport?

Why is there no regulation for equity purposes? [/quote]

Club: $2k-$5k per team (multiple kids are playing on multiple teams)
Private school: $35k+ per kid
Public: Don't know many

Last year, nearly 30 hotel nights for lacrosse travel alone.  Drove everywhere, so no flights (Sandstorm isn't worth it).  Finding that there are multiple tiers of pricing for showcases depending how good you are, but that's another few thousand dollars.  Gear and "spirit wear" adds up.  Financially, it's an idiotic decision, but it's our family's hobby and a great way to spend time together, and I'll miss it when it's over.  We spend well over $30k/year in lacrosse, and we'd spend double without blinking an eye.

The folks complaining about "fairness" are missing the point.  Holdbacks in the DMV area (and as far down as NC) are being rewarded with undeserved recruiting.  The real cost there is your child starting life a few years later for what is realistically a chance to ride the pine at a D1 school.  Money isn't the biggest cost here: it's time.  
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